VOL. 125 | NO. 148 | Monday, August 02, 2010
Olive Branch will add nearly 1,000 jobs thanks to a trio of major economic development deals involving the creation of new plants and a hospital facility.
For many people, having someone else to sweep floors and mop bathrooms might be considered a luxury, and possibly the first item crossed off any budget when the economy spirals downward and times get tough.
Metro Charter Commissioners continue closing in on the exact language of a consolidation charter with a meeting Monday.
Listening to Sean Dieterle, a portfolio specialist with the prominent PIMCO investment company, give his insight on investing and the economy, it’s hard not to think of the classic villain in a horror flick.
Andrea Johnson Haynes wants her fellow Memphians to know that living a greener, healthier lifestyle isn’t just about the foods they eat.
Owning the same business for 30 years provides good perspective on whether to sell your business at some point or make it your retirement plan.
Katie Smythe appreciates any exposure her dance school, New Ballet Ensemble and School, can get, particularly when it brings her students success.
Marshall Grant and Johnny Cash were stuck at a train crossing one night in 1955 when they heard one of Cash’s early hits on the radio, prompting the Man in Black to say: “We don’t sound like other people.”
Neurosurgeons began working with a technologically advanced simulator that provides sense of touch along with three-dimensional monitors as soon as it arrived at the Medical Education & Research Institute.
THE MEMPHIS NEWS
Part of the path to inner-city recovery appears to run through a garden, or at least through the produce section of a supermarket. Nine farmers markets operate in various parts of Shelby County this summer, from Downtown to Collierville and places such as Germantown, Agricenter International and Cooper-Young in between.
For so long the development of our cities and our suburbs has been a move away from or toward the third partner in the triumvirate – the rural areas – without ever arriving there.
Neal P. Gillen is an attorney and author whose seventh novel was recently published.
The instructions didn’t self-destruct five seconds after being read, but plans for the Memphis funk band The Bar-Kays’ next overseas tour have been on a need-to-know basis.
Jim’s Place restaurant was founded Downtown in 1921. Eighty-nine years later, the Taras family still owns Jim’s Place East, on Shelby Oaks Drive, and Jim’s Place Grille, in Collierville, though a major change is coming for Jim’s Place East in the next few months.
Man, it’s so darned hot that I wish I had a glass of cool, refreshing rosé wine right here next to me as I tap-tap-tap on the keyboard of my computer. The fact that I’m sitting in an air-conditioned house and just sort of looking through the window at the heat has nothing to do with the matter. If it happened that I actually had to walk outside, well, then I could really use a glass of that cool, refreshing rosé.
STATEWIDE
NASHVILLE (AP) – The American Cancer Society says Tennessee is falling short on legislative efforts to fight the disease.
NASHVILLE (AP) – Republican Bill Haslam's personal contribution to his gubernatorial bid now tops $1.45 million, according to last campaign finance reports before next week's primary.
REGIONAL
BALDWYN, Miss. (AP) – Gov. Haley Barbour says Toyota will resume work at the site of a $200 million plant that will supply parts to its automotive manufacturing facility in North Mississippi.
BILOXI, Miss. (AP) – BP's incoming CEO said Friday that it's time for a "scaleback" of the massive effort to clean up the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, but he added that the commitment to make things right is the same as ever.
NATIONAL BUSINESS
WASHINGTON (AP) – The recovery is losing so much momentum that employers are unlikely to step up hiring anytime this year, and unemployment could return to double digits.
Wells Fargo is getting rid of penalty interest rates on credit cards. These are the higher rates imposed when customers are 60 days late. Customers will be notified of the change in their August statements.
WASHINGTON (AP) – The recession was deeper than the government previously thought.
NATIONAL POLITICS
WASHINGTON (AP) – Congress on Friday approved far-reaching aviation safety legislation that was developed in response to a deadly commuter airline crash in western New York last year.
DETROIT (AP) – President Barack Obama on Friday heralded the recent turnaround for U.S. automakers, arguing that thousands of jobs and increased production vindicate his unpopular decision to bailout the industry.
WASHINGTON (AP) – Actor Andy Griffith has a new role: pitching President Barack Obama's health care law to seniors in a cable television ad paid for by Medicare.